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G. CLAUSING GOLF TEE Filed March 19, 1927 A TTORNEY Patented Oct. 11, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE CLAUSING, OF PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE VULCAN LAST COM- PANY, OF PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

GOLF TEE.

Application filed March 19, 1927. Serial No. 176,812.

My invention relates to golf tees. It is the object of my invention to provide a golf tee having a novel golf ball supporting head and a novel means of attaching the tee to the ground to prevent the rotation of the tee and to facilitate its insertion into the ground.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is an end elevation of a tee of 11* my invention having a fiat prong;

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof; Figure 3 is a section on the line 33 of Figure 2 looking in the direction of the arrows with a golf ball in place;

Figure 4 is a side elevation of the tee; Figure 5 is a side elevation of a tee with a modified form of attaching shaft;

Figure 6 is a top plan view of Figure 5; Figure 7 is a section on the line 77 of Figure 6;

ture shown in Figure 5.

Referring to the drawings, the primary purpose so far as the ground attaching shaft is concerned of my form of golf tee illustrated in the drawings accompanying this document is to provide a broad bearing surface for the tee to prevent movement about its vertical axis.

The object of preventing such movement is to prevent the loss of the tee, as I have found upon striking the ball that a movement is usually imparted to the tee about this vertical axis which results in loosening the tee from the soil and the loss of the tee.

Accordingly, I have provided a broad fiat ground attaching means consisting either of a pair of downwardly extending prongs 1 having parallel outer edges 2 and inwardly.

4o tapering edges 3 terminating in points 4 or a continuous flat plate 5 bevelled at 6 and tapering to a point 4. The upper portion of the ground attaching prong or prongs constitutes a body member designated 6 which body member has formed on the upper end thereof a plurality of supporting edges for a golf ball to properly position and support the ball, and, at the same time, offer the minimum of resistance to its flight at the moment of departure from the tee. In the present instance, I have located on each corner of the body 6, which is preferably square, one-fourth of a pyramid generally designated 7 the line of juncture of the two faces of the pyramid being designated 8, so

Figure 8 is an end elevation of the structhat all the lines will meet at a common cenoer 9. Such lines 8 may be called ridge lines.

The golf ball will rest upon these edges or lines 8 and will be suitably retained from rolling olf the tee by the pyramid bodies 7.

Between these pyramidal bodies 7 are V- shaped cutaway areas 10 so that there is the minimum of resistance to the flight of the ball, as there is no continuous rim to impede the ball in its flight.

It will be understood that I desire to comprehend within my invention such modifications as may be necessary to adapt it to varying conditions and uses.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: r

1. In a golf tee, a tapering V-shaped head having a plurality of pyramidal quarters and a fiat-sided, pointed shaft for engaging the ground.

2. In a golf tee, a tapering V-shaped golf ball supporting head having a plurality of pyramidal quarters, and a flat sided tapering pointed shaft for engaging the ground, the said shaft having an opening therein into which the soil may be crowded, the shaft being thicker at the top than at the bottom.

3. In a golf tee, a tapering V-shaped golf ball supporting head having a plurality of pyramidal quarters and a tapering ground engaging means located in a single plane, the opposite surfaces of which are parallel to one another with a tapering open space therebetween.

4. In a golf tee, a ground attaching means and a head having a plurality of pyramidal quarters adapted to have their ridge lines so arranged as to support a golf ball thereon.

5. In a golf tee, a flat tapering pointed ground engaging portion and a golf ball sup porting portion consisting of a plurality of pyramidal quarters adapted to have their ridge linessupporting a golf ball.

6. In combination in a golf tee of a square head, a group of four pyramidal quarters having their ridge lines terminating at the center of the head and their bases at the corners of the head, so that the golf ball may rest on the ridge lines of the pyramidal quarters, and a fiat pointed ground engaging portion, the opposite sides of Which are parallel. In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

.VIGEORGE CLAUSING. 

